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Reducing bullying in schools by focussing on school climate and school socio-economic status

Winnaar, L.; Arends, F.; Beku, U. (2019-03-20)

Aspirations and Horizons for Action: Student Choice of Profession in South Africa This paper is a secondary analysis, using data from the South African 2015 cycle of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science ...
Aspirations and horizons for action: student choice of profession in South Africa

Cosser, M. (HSRC Press, 2019-03-20)

Building on the previous chapter's focus on the match between university and the labour market, this chapter engages with the topic of post-school education from a different angle, that of future aspirations.
'Accounting' for migrants in inequality and the future: the distance to openness

Masilela, T.; Rule, S.; Adams, R. (HSRC Press, 2019-03-20)

The questions of the value of migrations to social development and the alleviation and/ or exacerbation of poverty and inequality have featured strongly in international debates and discussions in the wake of large-scale ...
Realising socioeconomic rights: a reconceptualised constitutional dialogue

Bohler-Muller, N.; Pienaar, G.; Davids, Y.D.; Gordon, S.L. (HSRC Press, 2019-03-18)

The chapter opens with an analytical discussion of recent data and trends emerging from annual rounds of the Human Sciences Research Council's (HSRC's) South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS). It goes on to discuss ...
Smallholder livestock farmers' knowledge, attitudes, practices and perceptions towards vaccinations: the case of five provinces in South Africa

Habiyaremye, A.; Maziya, M.; Mdlulwa, Z.; Chaminuka, P. (2019-03-19)

The main aim of this study was to investigate smallholder farmers' knowledge, attitudes, practices and perceptions (KAPP) towards primary animal healthcare, especially the use of animal vaccine for disease prevention.
The youth violence potential scale for practitioners

Edelstein, I.; Adonis, C. (2019-03-19)

Youth are central to issues of interpersonal violence. South Africa has among the highest rates of intentional homicide globally, with many youth being victims and perpetrators. Given their vulnerability, there is a critical ...
Post-graduate trajectories of young South African graduates

Case, J.; Marshall, D.; Fongwa, S. (African Minds, 2019-03-18)

What graduates end up doing after they leave university has become of increasing concern and interest over the last few decades. In these times of increased participation in higher education, growing economic uncertainties ...
Poverty and inequality: a preliminary postscript

Soudien, C.; Woolard, I.; Reddy, V. (HSRC Press, 2019-03-17)

In this retrospective and prospective chapter we offer brief and tentative conclusions to a volume charged with the almost impossible task of capturing the diversity, complexity and multidimensionality of poverty and ...
The state of the nation: poverty & inequality: diagnosis, prognosis and responses

Soudien, C.; Reddy, V.; Woolard, I. (HSRC Press, 2019-03-18)

State of the Nation 2018 covers a diversity of perspectives that highlight the interrelationship and intersectionality between structural, economic, cultural and psychosocial dimensions of the South African social experience. ...
South Africa 2018: the state of the discussion on poverty and inequality

Soudien, C.; Reddy, V.; Woolard, I. (HSRC Press, 2019-03-18)

The purpose of this introduction is to map and address some of the conceptual issues that have arisen in the development of this recovery agenda in South Africa, and to provide an analytic framework for holding the multiple ...
Upgrading informal trading: impacts on livelihoods and social cohesion in Khayelitsha

Barolsky, V.; Sanchez-Betancourt, D.; Davids, Y.D. (HSRC Press, 2019-03-18)

The chapter investigates how these economic-rational aspirations undermined existing social cohesion and forms of solidarity as evidenced by the tensions that emerged between the intervention and the traders it sought to ...
Unconditionally human?: decolonising human rights

Soudien, C. (Springer, 2019-03-17)

Taylor [Modern social imaginaries (p. 12). Durham: Duke University Press, 2003], in a powerful discussion of the nature of social differentiation in modernity came to the conclusion that the modern order gives no ontological ...
Exploring differences in South African graduate outcomes

Fongwa, S.; Marshall, D.; Case, J. (African Minds, 2019-03-14)

Interest in graduate employability tends to centre on the role of graduates in the workplace and the capacity of higher education to prepare them for the labour market (Tomlinson, 2012). Graduate employability has been ...
Knowledge exchange and innovation co-creation in living labs projects in South Africa

Habiyaremye, A. (Taylor and Francis, 2019-03-14)

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the co-learning methodology, inherent in the Living Labs approach, has been deployed to stimulate knowledge exchange and absorption in marginalised rural communities in South ...
Rural innovation adoption pitfalls: the case of interrupted diffusion of sericulture among Rwandan farmers

Habiyaremye, A. (HSRC Press, 2019-03-14)

In densely populated Rwanda, agricultural expansion in traditional farming activities is constrained by an unfavourable topological configuration and dispersed human settlement patterns which impede mechanisation and prevent ...
Dispora collaboration and knowledge production in Africa: reflections on caveats and opportunities

Fongwa, S. (2019-03-12)

Irrespective of its conceptualisation, diaspora contributes to the development of the homelands through diverse forms of collaboration. The increase in remittances and diaspora involvement in fostering democratic values ...
Towards an expanded discourse on graduate outcomes in South Africa

Fongwa, S. (University of South Africa Press, 2019-03-12)

With a growing culture of accountability and institutional 'managerialism' at universities and other higher education institutions, graduate employability and actual employment outcomes have become key indicators for higher ...
A systematic review on occupational hazards, injuries and diseases among police officers worldwide: policy implications for the South African Police Service

Mona, G.; Chimbari, M.; Hongoro, C. (2019-03-12)

Occupational hazards, injuries and diseases are a major concern among police officers, including in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, there is limited locally relevant literature for guiding policy for the South African Police ...
How to improve teaching practice?: an experimental comparison of centralized training and in-classroom coaching

Cilliers, J.; Fleisch, B.; Prinsloo, C.; Taylor, S. (2018-11-21)

We experimentally compare two modes of in-service professional development for South African public primary school teachers. In both modes teachers received the same learning materials and daily lesson plans, aligned to ...
Decomposition of socioeconomic inequalities in cigarette smoking: the case of Namibia

Chisha, Z.; Nwosu, C.; Ataguba, J. (2019-03-08)

Namibia has one of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. Increased smoking prevalence, especially among the youth, may leave the country facing the spectre of higher smoking-related disease prevalence in ...

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